2. which refers to the software whose source code is
available to customers and it can be modified
and redistributed without any limitations. An
OOS may come free of cost or with a payment of
nominal charges that its developers may charge
in the name development, support of software.

3. FLOSS Refers to free libre and
open source software i.e.
used to refer to a software
which is both free software
as well as open source
software.

4. GNU is a free software Operating system. Its
name is the recursive acronym for “GNU’s
Not Unix”, which was chosen because its
design is Unix-like , but it contains no actual
UNIX code.

5. It is a non profitable organization
created by Richard stallman in
1985 to support GNU project and
GNU licenses.FSF remains the
primary sponsor if GNU project.

6. This is an organization which is
dedicated to promote open
source software. OSI is founded
by bruce parens and erics
raymond in Feb 1998. OSI
defined the term and
specifications of open source
software

7. It is created in oct 1994. It is responsible for
the software standard for world wide web.it
is responsible for developing protocols for
the WWW. W3C’s mission is “To lead the
world wide web to its full potential by
developing protocols and guidelines that
ensure long term growth for web”

10. The Source code of the
proprietary software is not
available freely. It is not an
open source software , but it is
regulated and distributed with
the special permission of the
supplier or vendor .

11. The word Localization is occasionally
abbreviated as “l10n”(The number between
the letter s l and n.)because there are 10
letters between its first and last letters.
Localization is the adaptation of an object
to a locality.

12. It is a popular Operating System and originally
was used to refer to the kernel of O/S. it is the
most common example of the free software
because it is freely available with source code .
So that any one can use it , modify it and
redistribute it. LINUX can be downloaded from
www.linux.org.

13. The Mozilla Application Suite
(originally known as Mozilla, marketed
as the mozilla suite, and code named
SeaMonkey)is a free, cross platform
internet suite , whose components
include a web browser, an e-mail and
news clients, an HTML editor.

14. •Apache web server was originally created By Rob
McCool.
•It is a Free software/Open source HTTP web
server for many platforms like BSD, Linux, and
UNIX systems, Microsoft system.
•The Apache Server is developed and maintained
by an open community of developers under the
auspices of the apache software foundation.
•It can freely downloaded from the site
www.apache.org.

15. “My SQL” is officially pronounced as
“My Ess Queue Ell” not “My SQL”.
My SQL is a multi-user Database
System.
My SQL databases are accessed in the
language link: C,C+
+,C#,Eiffel,Smalltalk,Java,Lisp, Perl, PHP,
Python, Ruby, REALbasic, and Tcl.

16.  It is a free relational database
server(database management system),
released under a flexible BSD-style license.
 It offers an alternative to open source
database systems(such as MySQL and
Firebird), as well as to proprietary system
such as Oracle, Sybase, IBM’s DB2 and mi

17.  Pangs is an Open source library for rendering
internationalization texts.
 The name Pango is from Greek “pan” and
Japanese “Go”.
 The library can avail in www.pongo.org.

18.  It is a free and open source office suite.
 It was developed to create a leading
international office suite which will run on all
major plateforms and provide access to all
functionality and data through open
component based API’s and XML-based file
format.
 It includes word processor , spreadsheet,
presentation, vector drawing, and database
components.

19.  Tomcat is a web server that supports
servlets(server side scripting) and JSP’s.
 Tomacat comes with the Jasper compiler
that compiles JSPs into servlets.
 Tomact stated off as a servlet
specification implementation by james
duncan davidson who worked as a
software architect at sun.
 Initial Tomcat release appeared with
versions 3.0x.Tomcat 5.5.x.

20. Apache Tomcat is a web
container which is
developed at apache
software foundation.

21.  It stands for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”.
 It is an open source programming language
which helps to develop server-side
application and dynamic web content.

22.  Python is an programming language.
 The language has syntactic simplicity,
flexible typing and interactive
interpreter.
 It uses both industry and academic for a
wide variety of purposes.
 Python uses far fewer symbols that
languages like java and C.e.g., blocks
inside loops and IF statements are
indicated by indentation rather than curly
braces({}), and the end of a line does not
have a semicolon.

24. 1. Transaction Processing Systems
2. Office Information Systems
3. Knowledge Work Systems
4. Management Information Systems
5. Decision Support Systems
6. Executive Support Systems
7. Expert Systems